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Diego Rivera
Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer)1943

Not on view
Watercolor and ink drawing of a small figure bent forward under a towering load of a slatted crate and rolled straw mat, signed Diego Rivera
Artist or Maker
Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title
Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer)
Date Made
1943
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
15 × 10 3/4 in. (38.1 × 27.30 cm); 25 1/4 × 21
Credit Line
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number
AC1997.LWN.226
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Los Tres: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros. Santa Clara, Calif.: Triton Museum of Art.
  • Diego Rivera: a Rare Retrospective Exhibition. Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1993.
  • Magaloni, Diana and Michael Govan, eds. Picasso Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.